Career Education Corporation to Participate in Salomon Smith Barney Conference.Business Editors/Education Writers HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 2001 Career Education Corporation (Nasdaq:CECO CECO Council of Engineering Companies of Oregon CECO Cost Estimate Change Order CECO Center for Economic and Community Outreach CECO CENTCOM Engineer Contingency Organization CECO Concrete Engineering Company of Omaha (Ceco Concrete Construction LLC) ) today announced it will participate in the Salomon Smith Barney Emerging Growth Conference 2001 to be held February 13-15 at the Plaza Hotel in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Career Education Corporation is scheduled to present at approximately 2:55 p.m. ET on Tuesday, February 13, 2001. Interested parties can access the conference live and for 30 days following its conclusion through the Internet at either www.veracast.com/ssb_emerginggrowth2001/clientaccess/39110162.cfm or at CEC's corporate website at www.careered.com under the Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. link. At the conference, John M. Larson, chairman, president and chief executive officer, and Patrick K. Pesch, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will provide an overview of CEC's strategic growth plan and financial performance. Career Education Corporation is one of the world's largest providers of private, for-profit postsecondary education in the career-oriented disciplines of visual communication and design technologies, information technology, business studies and culinary arts. The Company currently operates 38 campuses throughout the United States and in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates, federation of sheikhdoms (2005 est. pop. 2,563,000), c.30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), SE Arabia, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. , with over 33,000 students enrolled as of January 31, 2001. CEC (Central Electronic Complex) The set of hardware that defines a mainframe, which includes the CPU(s), memory, channels, controllers and power supplies included in the box. Some CECs, such as IBM's Multiprise 2000 and 3000, include data storage devices as well. colleges enjoy long operating histories and offer a wide variety of master's degree, bachelor's degree, associate degree and diploma programs. Major brand names operated by CEC include American InterContinental University American InterContinental University, commonly called AIU, is an international for-profit university owned by Career Education Corporation (stock symbol CECO). It was founded in 1977 as the American College of Applied Arts. (six campuses), the Katharine Gibbs Schools (nine campuses), the International Academy of Design and Technology The International Academy of Design and Technology (IADT) is a for-profit private media arts college accredited by a national agency, the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS). (eight campuses), and Le Cordon Bleu For the Schnitzel variant, see . Le Cordon Bleu (French for "blue ribbon") is an international group of hospitality management and cooking schools teaching French cuisine. Culinary Programs North America (seven campuses). CEC also operates a number of unique brand name colleges with well-known reputations. The forward-looking statements contained in this release and those statements made at and during the Salomon Smith Barney conference are based upon various assumptions, and certain risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated. Factors that could cause such differences include costs and difficulties associated with opening new campuses and in integrating the American InterContinental University campuses and other acquisitions, costs associated with the Distance Learning Division, changes in the regulatory environment and those matters disclosed in Career Education Corporations filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Career Education Corporation assumes no obligation to update those forward-looking statements. |
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